No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
BARBARA WALTERSNo one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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